Fictions Quotes

65 Fictions quotes by 61 unique authors

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than… — Thomas Hood
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have… — Umberto Eco
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they… — Havelock Ellis
There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my… — Albert Einstein
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human… — Jeremy Northam
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. — Frank Kermode
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well… — Wallace Stegner
The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these are fictions just… — Rajneesh
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster
Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m creating my own… — Sally Mann
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to… — Plato
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves… — Manuel Puig
The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through… — Thomas Merton
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety… — Siri Hustvedt
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities… — Donna J. Haraway
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. — Nancy Mairs
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions,… — George Steiner
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. — Twyla Tharp
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental… — Karl Jaspers
The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event… — Walter Lippmann
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything… — Allen Tate
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left… — Gerry Spence
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but… — Gore Vidal
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that… — Dan Chaon
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper;… — Thomas Berry

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